Daniel Waters
Screenwriter Daniel Waters (Heathers, Batman Returns, Hudson Hawk) walks Josh and Joe through 10 movies that he saw at very important moments in his life. An autobiography through film.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Demolition Man (1993)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Pom-Pom Girls (1976)
Psycho (1960)
Halloween (1978)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
The Bad News Bears (1976)
The Omen (1976)
Dead of Night (1945)
Devil Doll (1964)
Manhattan (1979)
Back Roads (1981)
The Last Hard Men (1976)
Damien: Omen II (1978)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Gorgo (1961)
The Stranglers of Bombay (1960)
Reptilicus (1961)
The Gauntlet (1977)
That’s Entertainment! (1974)
That’s Dancing! (1985)
That’s Entertainment! III (1994)
Chinatown (1974)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Hitman’s Run (1999)
On The Border (1998)
Instinct To Kill (2001)
Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever (2002)
A History of Violence (2005)
The Three Musketeers (1974)
Below (2002)
Tuck Everlasting (2002)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Knockaround Guys (2002)
White Oleander (2002)
Swept Away (2002)
Comedian (2002)
The Banger Sisters (2002)
Heathers (1989)
Shag (1989)
Logan’s Run (1976)
Walkabout (1973)
Killer Snakes (1974)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
Breaking Away (1979)
Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
Dead Calm (1989)
The Dish (2001)
Breathless (1960)
Two Or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
La Chinoise (1967)
Weekend (1967)
Nostalghia (1983)
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Bang The Drum Slowly (1973)
The Tin Drum (1979)
The Dead Pool (1988)
Die Hard (1988)
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
The Matrix (1999)
Waterworld (1995)
Ishtar (1987)
Psycho (1998)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Phase IV (1974)
The Searching Eye (1964)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Lolita (1962)
Treasure Island (1950)
Being There (1979)
Star Wars (1977)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
Jaws (1975)
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
Harry and Walter Go To New York (1976)
Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
Zandy’s Bride (1974)
Mean Girls (2004)
Fame (1980)
The Hunger (1983)
Thunderball (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Other Notable Items
South 31 Drive-In, Indiana
Starlite Drive-In, Indiana
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 TV show (1988-1999, 2017- )
The Omen novelization by David Seltzer (1976)
David Hemmings
David Warner
Boris Karloff
“Copacabana (At The Copa)” by Barry Manilow
Damien: Omen II novelization by Joseph Howard and Michael Hodges (1978)
Monarch Books
Dean Owen’s Monarch Books novelizations of Brides of Dracula, Reptilicus, Carson Bingham’s Monarch novelization of Gorgo, Stuart James’s Monarch novelization of The Stranglers of Bombay
Harold Robbins
The Gauntlet novelization by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack (1977)
Pat Hingle
Gremlins novelization by George Gipe (1984)
Blow Out novelization by William Harrison (1981)
National Lampoon’s Animal House Book (1978)
Garrison Keiler
Richard Lester
Walter Hill
Paramount Pictures
Phoebe Cates
Sammy Davis Jr.
Jenny Agutter
Michael York
Farah Fawcett
Sam Neill
September 11th, 2001
November 8th, 2016
McGill University
Jean-Luc Godard
Andrei Tarkovsky
Francis Ford Coppola
The New Beverly Cinema
Malcolm McDowell
Werner Herzog
Volker Schlöndorff
Guns ‘N’ Roses, “Welcome to the Jungle”
Alan Rickman
Bruce Willis
Mannix TV show (1967-1975)
The Ramones
Mel Torme
Uriah Heap
AC/DC
Keanu Reeves
Joe Brown’s Washington Post rave review for Hudson Hawk
Janet Maslin’s New York Times not-quite-rave review for Hudson Hawk
Psycho novel by Robert Bloch (1959)
Julianne Moore
Cinefamily
Saul Bass
Sue Lyon
James Mason
Peter Sellers
Lolita novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Stanley Kubrick
Gene Hackman
Jaws novel by Peter Benchley (1974)
Mark Waters
Nastassja Kinsky
Roger Moore
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